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Learn to:
- Guide patients and their families through treatment options and potential outcomes
- Quickly and confidently make the right moral and ethical choices
- Apply ethics to controversial issues
A practical, insightful guide to the ethical standards of healthcare
In your career as a medical professional, you'll be responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatment to follow. Packed with helpful information, this hands-on, friendly guide arms you with the knowledge you need to make the best ethical decisions in various situations ? quickly and confidently.
- Medical ethics 101 ? discover how to protect your patients' privacy, how to communicate with them, and your obligation to uphold their rights
- Respect your patients' wishes ? find out how to work with patients who refuse medical care, disagree with your opinion, or have personal beliefs that limit the medical treatment they are willing to receive
- The circle of life ? get guidance on how to apply medical ethics to topics such as abortion, parental involvement with minors, assisted reproduction, end-of-life care, and euthanasia
- Advancing medical knowledge ? see what it takes to conduct ethical clinical research on animals and humans, what is required to enroll patients in clinical trials, and the ethical implications that arise in stem cell and genetic research
Open the book and find:
- Principles that guide ethical medical decisions
- The distinctions and connections between ethics and morality
- Day-to-day ethical challenges in the life of a medical professional
- Advice on how to finance a deal
- Information about managing your practice and working with other healthcare providers
- Advice for disclosing medical errors to patients and colleagues
- Tips for talking to patients about vaccination and organ donation
- High-profile ethics cases that have shaped the practice of medicine
Learn to:
- Guide patients and their families through treatment options and potential outcomes
- Quickly and confidently make the right moral and ethical choices
- Apply ethics to controversial issues
A practical, insightful guide to the ethical standards of healthcare
In your career as a medical professional, you'll be responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatment to follow. Packed with helpful information, this hands-on, friendly guide arms you with the knowledge you need to make the best ethical decisions in various situations ? quickly and confidently.
- Medical ethics 101 ? discover how to protect your patients' privacy, how to communicate with them, and your obligation to uphold their rights
- Respect your patients' wishes ? find out how to work with patients who refuse medical care, disagree with your opinion, or have personal beliefs that limit the medical treatment they are willing to receive
- The circle of life ? get guidance on how to apply medical ethics to topics such as abortion, parental involvement with minors, assisted reproduction, end-of-life care, and euthanasia
- Advancing medical knowledge ? see what it takes to conduct ethical clinical research on animals and humans, what is required to enroll patients in clinical trials, and the ethical implications that arise in stem cell and genetic research
Open the book and find:
- Principles that guide ethical medical decisions
- The distinctions and connections between ethics and morality
- Day-to-day ethical challenges in the life of a medical professional
- Advice on how to finance a deal
- Information about managing your practice and working with other healthcare providers
- Advice for disclosing medical errors to patients and colleagues
- Tips for talking to patients about vaccination and organ donation
- High-profile ethics cases that have shaped the practice of medicine
Jane Runzheimer, MD, is a family physician who has served on the Ethics Committee of Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
Linda Johnson Larsen has written 24 books, many of which have an emphasis on health, and has been a patient advocate for her husband and several family members.
Introduction 1
Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing 7
Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics? 9
Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine 19
Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship 33
Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice 55
Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors 73
Part II: A Patient's Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care 93
Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare 95
Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care 113
Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities 127
Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life 147
Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues 149
Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy 171
Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion 195
Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process 219
Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care 233
Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research 257
Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research 259
Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial 275
Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations 293
Chapter 17: It's All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research 307
Part V: The Part of Tens 331
Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients 333
Chapter 19: Ten High-Profi le Medical Ethics Cases 341
Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future 349
Index 353
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Genre: | Importe, Medizin |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 384 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780470878569 |
| ISBN-10: | 0470878568 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Runzheimer, Jane
Larsen, Linda Johnson |
| Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
| Maße: | 235 x 191 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jane Runzheimer (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.12.2010 |
| Gewicht: | 0,719 kg |
Jane Runzheimer, MD, is a family physician who has served on the Ethics Committee of Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
Linda Johnson Larsen has written 24 books, many of which have an emphasis on health, and has been a patient advocate for her husband and several family members.
Introduction 1
Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing 7
Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics? 9
Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine 19
Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship 33
Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice 55
Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors 73
Part II: A Patient's Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care 93
Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare 95
Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care 113
Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities 127
Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life 147
Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues 149
Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy 171
Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion 195
Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process 219
Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care 233
Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research 257
Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research 259
Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial 275
Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations 293
Chapter 17: It's All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research 307
Part V: The Part of Tens 331
Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients 333
Chapter 19: Ten High-Profi le Medical Ethics Cases 341
Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future 349
Index 353
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Allgemeine Lexika |
| Genre: | Importe, Medizin |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 384 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780470878569 |
| ISBN-10: | 0470878568 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Runzheimer, Jane
Larsen, Linda Johnson |
| Hersteller: |
Wiley
John Wiley & Sons |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
| Maße: | 235 x 191 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Jane Runzheimer (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 07.12.2010 |
| Gewicht: | 0,719 kg |
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